CelestinaBroadview Press, 25 באוק׳ 2004 - 603 עמודים Published here for the first time in a modern edition, Charlotte Smith’s third novel is both rivetingly plotted and unique for its time in its powerful depiction of a gifted Romantic woman poet. The novel’s heroine, Celestina, abandoned as a child in a French convent, becomes an independent, witty, and accomplished elegiac poet who, in a reversal of the usual pattern of the courtship novel, acts as a mentor to several men in her life. Written at the beginning of the French Revolution, Smith’s novel depicts characters challenging both corrupt authority and conventional morality, exemplifying her hope that English society was on the verge of a great change for the better. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and primary source material relating to the novel’s reception, its political contexts (writings by Reverend Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine), and the author’s life. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 36
... recollection of my mother ... " " Does indeed overcome me , " answered Celestina . " I have lost a mother and a brother too - Yes ! I have lost all ! " " Pardon me , Miss de Mornay , " replied Willoughby , " I meant not to distress you ...
... recollection enough to cry , ' My child ! my child ! save my child ! ' and to hear Emily repeat - ' What child ? what can I do for you ? Good Heaven ! what can I do for you ? ' But I was unable to answer . I found myself , however , in ...
... recollection of whom , added to her own merit , made her to him an object almost of adoration ; while Anzoletta loved her as a sister , to whom she became more tenderly attached , from taste and affection , than even that near tie of ...
תוכן
Acknowledgements | 7 |
A Brief Chronology | 45 |
A Note on the Text | 51 |
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